How is the Passover connected to Easter?

Answer 1

The Last Supper, from which we get Communion/Eucharist according to denomination, was Jesus' celebration of Passover. It was after the Passover meal, which they celebrated in the traditional manner, that Jesus took the bread and wine and described it as symbolic of His sacrifice of Himself for our sins.

Answer 2

Passover isn't connected to Easter. However, according to the Christian Bible, Jesus was crucified around the time of Passover and this is the primary event that forms the basis of the holiday of Easter.

The significance of the lamb in the story of Passover is that the Egyptians worshiped lambs as one of their gods. The symbolism of killing the lambs was the physical rejection of the false gods of Egypt. The Israelites were putting on a display of their rejection of these false gods and the acceptance of HaShem. Putting the blood of the lambs on their doorposts was only the second part of the process, the third part was that they had to roast the whole lamb and eat all of its meat that night. Once established in Israel with the Temple, the lambs slaughtered every year in commemoration of the holiday of Passover were offering of thanks, not 'sin' offerings.

Christian Perspective

Before the nation of Israel left Egypt they were instructed to take a lamb and sacrifice it and paint the blood of the lamb on the doorpost and lintel of the house. Then when the LORD came to destroy all the first born of Egypt he would passover the houses that had blood on the door posts.

Exo 12:12 'For I will pass through the land of Egypt on that night, and will strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am the LORD.

Exo 12:13 Now the blood shall be a sign for you on the houses where you are. And when I see the blood, I will pass over you; and the plague shall not be on you to destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt.

Jesus was the lamb of God

Joh 1:29 The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, "Behold! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!

His death is like the death of the passover lamb. God will forgive the sins of those who accept that Jesus died for them. Easter is the time we remember the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus - the lamb of God